Opinion page editor Rick Holmes and other writers blog about national politics and issues. Holmes & Co. is a Blog for Independent Minds, a place for a free-flowing discussion of policy, news and opinion. This blog is the online cousin of the Opinion
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Opinion page editor Rick Holmes and other writers blog about national politics and issues. Holmes & Co. is a Blog for Independent Minds, a place for a free-flowing discussion of policy, news and opinion. This blog is the online cousin of the Opinion section of the MetroWest Daily News in Framingham, Mass. As such, our focus starts there and spreads to include Massachusetts, the nation and the world. Since successful blogs create communities of readers and writers, we hope the \x34& Co.\x34 will also come to include you.

Adding to the evidence that Obama really is a uniter and not a divider, an equal opportunity bipartisan pig, comes the news that the Prez has caved in and signed the NDAA, keeping America’s torture factory in Cuba open for business. This guy is going to keep the Hague busy sorting out his various crimes against humanity for years to come. So, 24 hours after crowing that he kept his promise to tax people who make $250,000 or more (well, he caved on that), he lived up to his promise to shut down Gitmo. (wait, he didn’t do that either). the guy hasn’t even been sworn in yet and he’s already tossed his promises to the wind.